The documentation says that a serial buffer is 128 bytes: Serial.available() - Arduino Reference The Arduino programming language Reference, organized into Functions, Variable and Constant, and Structure keywords. The code declares it as 16 or 64 bytes. htt…

Documentation bug - size of serial buffer

system May 7, 2012, 1:02pm 2

Can someone make a suitable fix?

Yes, some one can.

Will they? Probably not.